The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-30
The BED Flig Praised in 3 Large Nesting
Held st Cooper Union Hall.
Editor ShsvitOh Talks Wildly About the Par-
poses Of the Anarchists.
The Rsd Flag Of the Lovers of No Law, and
What lts Bright Color Means.
The Real Foreigners OF This Countrywide
nouneIng the Capitalists and Veal
thy Men-AIleged MuTderers.

NKw YoRK, November 28.-Cooper Union
as filed to overlooking tonight with peo-
I lie who sympstbize with the Chicago An
srehists who were hanged. The meeting
had been called 4 , the Trades Federation,
and in behalf of the widows and orphans
OF the Anarchists recently executed in
Chicago. It was an Anarchist meeting
through and through. There were red rib
bons and feathers on the women, red neck
ties and hat bands on the men; there was
a red and black flag back OF the
stage, and portraits of the hanged
Anarchists were draped in black and
displayed. The police were present il
force, but the meeting was not interrup-
ted. Sergius Shevitch was the orator. In
substance he said:
1t is no lime to cheer, it is no time to
weep. 1t is a time to think, a time to get
ready for action. 1t is a memorial we are
to celebrate tonight. Not in honor of
those who do not want any expression OF
feeling. It Is to the people of the country.
The judicial murder in Chicago would
have been impossible even IN Russia. The
men were not hanged for crime. They
were hanged for what they had thought,
written and spoken. They did not hang
Spies and the other Anarchists alone. They
hung free speech, free thought. 1t is
possible the men were cranks were foreign
ers to whom little ATTENTION. was paid. II
they were such, why was such an effort
put forth to suppress them? Ii is a mis.ake
to suppose their ideas do not amount to
anything. A quarter of a century ago
John Brown, a native of America, was
lynched, and four years later half the ma
tien was marching on with his soul.
Do you want to know the names of the
foreigners in this country? They are Jay
Gould, the VanderbiIts, the Russell Sages.
The foreigners are not the Anarchists.
The element who have nothing in kind
with the people are the capitalists. They
control our politics with their money and
have disgraced our honor and liberty.
own protection, for the protection Of
their stolen property. The execution
In Chicago will forever be handed down as
the worst crime in your history, The
people, Powderly and Henry George have
placed themselves in line with the hang
man. The object of the tragedy was to in,
Hmidate the advance workers in the labor
movement. There was no other cause fol-
the murder.
You have heard it said that the Anarch.
lists do not belong to this country. They
do not want to belong to this country
They do not need to come under it's flag
They have flag of their own, their red
flag. What is this red flag for which more
noble hearts have died than for any other
what does this red Hag mean? 1t means
the blood Of humanity. 1t means to put 8
stop TO the shedding of blood. 1t mean:
10 put stop TO the condition of those who
work hut cannot enjoy, and those who dc
not work but do enjoy. There is blood on
that flag. The blood of thousands and mil
lions slaughtered for that flag. 1t is drenched
in the blood Of the victims of the
militia in Illinois and other States
Ittaat fsg is dangerous, gentlemen Of tht
press, that danger has been created
by the gentlemen who employ your owl
bosses.
That bosh about law and order is on
ly dust that is thrown in the eyes o
the people. hope it is the habit Il
send spies to take down the words o
speakers on these occasions, and wha
they do not utter. Let us stand together
Let rs be more fiery in our language thar
ever before. Let the blood of the Anarch
lists cry out throughout the world. 1t
our flag. We will raise it, we Will carr
it through your streets.
The time is not far distant when a ma
tional monument will be raised to th
men murdered in Chicago.
Resolutions were passed in which thos
present pledged themselves to support tn
widows and orphans of the hanged Chicag
Anarchists.